George benson



(N o Model.)

G. BENsoN.

APPAREL 'GUFF.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE BENSON, or BELFAST, IRELAND.

"APP AlREL-CUFF.

Q SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,223, dated April30, 1889.

Application filed January 28, 1889, Serial No. 297,796. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE BENsON, of Belfast, Ireland, in the Kingdomof Great Britain, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inCuffs, of which the following is a specification. I

I .will describe a cuff embodying my i1nprovement in detail, and thenpoint out the novel features in claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a face view of a cuffembodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is atransverse section of thesame,.taken' on the plane of the dotted linea: ac,Fig. 1, and showing aportion of the wristband to which the cuff is attached. Fig. 3 is adetail showing a portion of a flap or apron comprised in the cuff, andFig.4 is a front View showing the cuff attached to a shirtwristband.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

A designates the body of the cuff. The cuff is what is known as areversible cuff.

I have shown button-holes a near its ends,

adapted to receive links or studs. These button-holes may, however, beomitted, and a tongue, 0, be used provided with a buttonhole, f, adaptedto register with abutton-hole, in1the cuif, as shown in dotted outlinein B B designate a flap or apron. This flap or apron is secured at itsinner edge to the body of the cuff at about midway in the width of thelatter, and is of nearly the same length at its inner edge as the bodyof the cuff. It is attached to the outside face of the body of the cuff.The flap or apron comprises two end portions, B, and a central portion,B, united at, its ends to the portions B. I prefer that the endportions, B, should be thicker than the portion B as, for instance, theend portions may be two or more ply,while the central portion may be butone'plyl The outer edge of the flap or apronis free, so that the flap orapron may be turned in either direction over against the face of thecuff. The outer edge of the central portion, B, is longer than the inneredge thereof, so that the central portion is full. This is accomplishedby cutting the central portion semicircular, as shown more clearly inFig. 3. The end portions, B, act as stiffeners for the flap. The centralportion, B, may likewise be provided with a stiffener, if desired. Ihave shown such an arrangement in dotted outline in Fig. 1.

As shown, the portionsB of the flap or apron are provided withbutton-holes a near their lower edges, which will register orapproximately register with the button-holes a in the body of the cuifwhen the flap or apron is folded down. The button-holes c,when used,need not, however, register with the buttonholes a, as the cuff may beattached to the wristband of a shirt by passing buttons through thebutton-holes a only and through suitable button-holes in the wristband.It may also be secured by passing buttons through the button-holes aonly and through the button-holes in the wristband. The flap or apronmay have a button-hole, d, in the central portion, B, as shown in dottedoutline in Fig. 1, if desirable.

In Figs. 2 and 4 I have shown the wristband of a shirt attached tothecuff. D designates the wristband. It extends between the flap or apron BB and the body ofthe cuff. In this case buttons 7t pass through both thebutton-holes c a to secure the cuif to the wristband.

The cuff eifectually conceals the wristband of the shirt. The portion Bofthe flap or apron gives the cuff the appearance of being attacheddirectly to a shirt-sleeve and not to a shirt-band. Of coursewhen thecuff is reversed the fiap or apron is to be reversed.

By making the portion B of the flap thinner than the end portions, B,the said flap, when placed upon the wristband, not only causes the cufito present the appearance of forming a part of the wristband, but italso provides for the ready yielding or bending of the flap about thewristband. This latter function is facilitated by the method of cuttingthe central portion, B, of the flap so that it is longer upon its outeredge than it is upon its inner edge, as the flap may, when placed uponthe wristband, be brought around-and buttoned very easily, as shown moreclearly inFig. 4.

hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A reversible cuff having an attached flap or a ron 4 said flap or aron bein rovided with a thin flexible central portion and end Areversible eufi'f havinga-n attached flap portions thicker than saidcentral portion, or apron, said flap or apron being providedsubstantially as specified. with a thin flexible central portion and end2. A reversible cuffihaving an attached flap portions thicker than saidcentral portion, 5 or apron, said flap or apron being provided saidcentral portionbeing made 111 SGmlCll'Cll- 15 with a thin flexiblecentral portion and end lar form, substantially as specified.

portions thicker than said central portion,the GEORGE BENSON. centralportion being longer upon its outer lVitnesses: edge than upon its inneredge, substantially JNO. M. SAVAGE,

0 as specified. 1 M0. D. COOKE.

